JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Jacksonville University celebrated its 92nd anniversary on Friday by having its 14th annual Charter Day of Service. <\/p>\n
Students helped clean the banks of the St. Johns River with the St. Johns Riverkeeper.<\/p>\n
Following a brief orientation in front of the campus\u2019s Marine Science Research Institute building, the students gloved up, bagged up, got their grabbers, and hit the shoreline.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThese are students who come from all over the country. You\u2019ve got athletes, fraternities and sororities,\u201d said Jacksonville University. President Tim Cost. <\/p>\n Among that small army of student volunteers at the shore were some Dolphins \u2014 the basketball team that is!<\/p>\n \u201cMan, just feels amazing just knowing how much the community does for us, and you know, supports us as a basketball team. You know, we just love having an opportunity just to help,\u201d said senior and basketball player Jason Thirdkill.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n \u201cJust pouring back into our community that pours back into us this entire season they\u2019ve been with us,\u201d said junior and Dolphins player Chris Lockett Jr.<\/p>\n The volunteers joined members of the St Johns River Keeper.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are the only organization whose sole purpose is advocating for the St. Johns River. She\u2019s right over here, and she doesn\u2019t have a voice for her own,\u201d said Dryden Mills, Community engagement specialist for the St. Johns Riverkeeper.<\/p>\n There were about 600 total volunteers at about 30 other volunteer sites on Friday, many of which were off campus. Some of the other non-profit partners participating in the charter day of service were Angels for Allison, READ USA, and Arlington Community Services.<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Jacksonville University celebrated its 92nd anniversary on Friday by having its 14th annual Charter Day…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[982,116,118,117,12907,105199,634,105200,7296,86103,71896],"class_list":{"0":"post-236347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-action_news","9":"tag-jacksonville","10":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","11":"tag-jacksonville-news","12":"tag-jacksonville_university","13":"tag-jacques_zion_dakota","14":"tag-local","15":"tag-msri","16":"tag-saint_johns_river","17":"tag-saint_johns","18":"tag-zion_deoto"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}